Classic air force has closed

The blue Canberra, shortly after its arrival in Cornwall in 2013, seen behind the Percival Prentice.

The ex CAF blue Canberra T4 now owned by the Cornwall Heritage Centre at Newquay is WJ874

I thought Wk163 went to Newqay? I might have got it wrong.

No….it is now owned by the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre having been originally roaded to Cornwall, by the then new Caf in 2013….. I think it was.

I assume they still have the blue Canberra T4?

That would appear to be the case yes, Mike Collett said he wasn’t in a rush….

thanks for clarifying that so it would appear that the aircraft will remain stored until homes can be found for them?

Just to clarify – we have been offered the chance to rent space in the hangar for approx 14 weeks to undergo the NDT testing process which requires the Shackleton to be jacked up in the ‘rigging position’ and remain stable throughout…
We are not ‘moving in’, and it all depends on finding the space by shuffling around other occupants of Hangar 7 so that on half of the hangar is clear for our use…. And for that we have to pay a fee just as anyone would 😉

Dont expect any answers,it has finished, ended and even when active getting clear answers was impossible,even the staff were left in the dark most of the time.

So whatever happened to these aircraft being held in Trust? (never signed?) and what happened to those who paid £hundreds to have a “share” in “their” aircraft?

Dakota’s and DC6, Twin Pioneer, Canberra WK163… what will become of them?

You need to delink the DC-6 from the CAF; it has been under separate ownership for some time now. Its potential and the proposals for its future are described here: http://thedc6.com/ownership/

The hangar has been offered to The Shackleton so are the tenants moving out?

Dakota’s and DC6, Twin Pioneer, Canberra WK163… what will become of them?

The Dakotas were on a pollution control contract until recently, the DC6 was under the control of a separate group (Cloudmaster…? Something like that), I had heard the others had offers on them, but that was when the website was still up.

I don’t think any of them are looking at a poor future. No doubt it will all become clear as they move off to different owners.

I had heard that the Meteors and the Vampire had sold. Don’t know more than that.

Dakota’s and DC6, Twin Pioneer, Canberra WK163… what will become of them?

Cirrus Aviation is the holding company for Classic Wings.

Which larger aircraft? Shackleton and Nimrod have a reasonably bright future which is why they weren’t involved in the sale.

But Air Atlantique will keep going?

According to G-INFO the Rapide has been sold to Cirrus Aviaition at Clacton, something to do with Classic Wings I presume?

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=AIDL

The Chipmunk to a Dutch owner,

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=APLO

The Prentice and Dove are registered to Air Atlantique,

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=APJB

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=DHDV

Its the meteors im concerned about… love them. Hopefully the larger aircraft will be gifted to the aeropark?